Player Features and Ideas Discussion

a module that changes the ship type in scan's and views as ganking is far to easy atm for bait ships like earth war time Q-ships

maybe scripts for ship types for varations
maybe allowing the the lv of skill to move the size of ship +/- 1 size probably a high slot so you have to give up some dps to use it,
disables active mods from use except maybe passive targeters
with sensor boosters allowing you to burn past image with enough power and close enough range or eccm maybe doing the same

Homing Link Launcher I + Homing Beacon Charge
Highslot

Desc: Launches a Homing Beacon onto targeted recipient. Tracks your targets movements in Real Time on your Starmap.
Homing Beacon lasts for 5 jumps per level of Astrometric Rangefinding (Max 25 Jumps).

Non offensive module
Must be Fitted to a Covert Ops, Recon or Blackops Ship.

^ because locater agents suck



Drone Calibration Dis-coordinator
Highslot
Area of Effect: 7000m

Desc: Effected Drones no longer respond to commands and will attack any legal target within their control range at random (Enemies, Corp Members, NPC Rat, Drones from the same User etc) for 20 Seconds. (Max 1 per ship)
(Does not Effect Fighters or Fighter Bombers)

^ consider it anti-drone ewar

Hardeners affecting two resists at once.

Here goes

Scripted Area of Effect Multi-Module Weapon Systems. (I like the sound of that hehe)

Basicly it's a "mini doomsday" and makes the ship a weapon platform with a tech 3 "link" (much like a command processor).

The tech 3 link links the weapons and power modules that players want to link. Mode power and weapons means more DPS. Also the link can be scripted giving the weapons EW properties while lowering DPS.

When fires the link charges up and fire consuming the ships capasitor (most of it at least) and all loaded ammunition in a small amount of time and thus generating the AoE.

After this the link needs to cool down, weapons need to reload and capacitor needs to recharge.

Naturaly the whole link can be overheated but if any of the link parts bear the weapon is useless. Also you could not break the link in space without a carrier, ms titan, ship hangar etc.

Also the use or having a "link" should show on the ships in some way.

This could be fitted on any ship but naturaly ships giving bonuses to weapons would do more damage. Also the choice or ammunition would effect the AoE.

Drone Controll Units of different sizes.

The current ones would be capital and would stay as they are.

New Drone Control Units for small, medium and large ships, each increasing the number of launchable Drones by 1 and providing the needed bandwith.

Example:




With these attributes, it would be possible for ships to fit "oversized" DCUs if they are willing to sacrifice as much fitting capacity.
These DCUs would generally benefit drone BS like the Dominix more than smaller ships like the Ishtar as an Ishtar would not be able to fit as much "large" DCUs.
It would however, allow to create specialised drone fittings on ships with an existing drone bonus and/or a large dronebay.

The biggest balancing problem could be ships like the Pilgrim. a Pilgrim would be able to get somewhat large dps for a Covert ship if willing to drop its Neuts.
The Rattlesnake could be problematic as well as it combines the Drone Bonus with the half ass Marauder highslots and Rattlesnake Pilots would have very little reason not to use these new DCUs over missile launchers.

However the DCUs would be based on the Advanced Drone Interfacing skill which has enormous requirements.
This should balance the large gain, it would also make the Advanced Drone Interfacing skill an actual asset for a wider audience of players.

Ewar - Communications Disruption:

25% chance to disrupt broadcasting or recognition communications for 10 seconds.

Prevents broadcasting and scratches out the overview when disrupted.

Aimed at disrupting mass targeting broadcast by an FC or assistance broadcast for logistics ships.

+20% effect per level.




Drones - Drone Bay Optimizer:

High slot module

+100 drone bay
-20% cargo capacity
1pg
28 CPU

Optimizes space in your drone bay at the expense of munitions

Hmm, we are getting salvage drones, so why not looting ones, why fly to cans when drones can?
Use the same rules as tractor beams and looting, aka popup message on unauthorised actions.



I agree but only where the Highslots already exist, Structural support etc, the rigs add the power/data/ammo/targetting etc. connections to these highslots.


Now I would like to suggest:


Freighter/JumpFreighter module:
(Yes ship specific like the Zephyr probe launcher or Primae's Sansha Codebreaker)

A module that allows a freighter to both drop and scoop Freight Containers similar to Jetcans but requiring a selected Container rather than generating a can from nothing.

Best description of the above is the Pods on Thunderbird 2.

And tweak the Freight Containers so that they can carry rigged ships akin to courier contracts, and are accessible in space if dropped in a PoS' shield bubble, but with the timing restrictions of normal Jetcans so that Freight Containers don't become a cheap PoS storage Array.

The basis for this is to allow Freighters & Jump Freighters the ability to swap Freight Containers in Space.
(Rather than having to dock/undock and try to avoid hitting a station wall.)


Warp Maximum Speed Neutraliser
A module that when entering warp drops the maximum speed of the warping ship to the default maximum for that ship without skills/implants.

Thus you hit the speed to enter warp faster, even with speed boosting modules on the same ship.

Additionally this could be configured to also be fit-able to all ships including but not limited to freighters/jump freighters.

I had considered making this a self web, but sometimes you need to abort the warp and fly at maximum speed, I also considered how overpowered it would be if used on a basic ship if it just dropped the max speed by a % for warp.

It could also find it's way in as a future warp speed skill rather than as a module too, as then it could have a % reduction of the difference between your maximum speed and ship standard max speed when entering warp, 20% reduction per level.


Heat Seeking Missiles
Similar to FoF Missiles but will go for the largest Ship/Heat source to it's location.

Heat damage would count as a larger heat source, however near a star these would detonate on launch causing some damage to the launching ship.

Also a damaged ship on fire (New explosion type gfx) could also be a good heat source.


Shield Neut Turret
This Highslot weapon would negate the shield of the targetted ship.
It does this by negating the LOWER VALUE of both your own and the targets shields from BOTH of you.

Thus an armor tanked ship would completely drop it's own shield to weaken a shield tanked one.
and a shield tanked ship would weaken it's shields to remove the shield on an armor tanked ship.

(An additional penalty could be added by treating this turret as a fitted "Active" armor module.)

I think he means a counterpart to my Shield Neut Idea, since we have Cap Neut's and NoS' ingame
I'd assume it would drain some of the targets shield to boost your own, but what % I wouldn't know.

WHAT DO I WANT TO SEE? .... Container Blueprints! and a Change to the way some things can be named

At the moment All Containers except the Station Warehouse (SW) are seeded.

I cannot buy a BPO for a Giant Secure Container (GSC), I cannot buy a BPO for a General Freight Container (GFC). I can only buy BPO/BPC and build SWs. But wait - I cannot Reprocess a SW if I am moving to a new location to allow me to use the minerals to build new SWs at my new home.

If I want containers in Nulsec at a Corp/Alliance owned Station, Noooo, I have to build SWs locally or ship in anything GFC or Smaller from where I buy it.

The game is suposedly a Player Run Economy - If this is so, why are containers not in the same category as all other manufactured goods. They should have BPOs and be fully reprocessable.

Other annoying things about containers:

I can flat pack a cardboard box, it takes up no where near the same volume as the assembled box - Why do containers take up the same volume assembled as repackaged?

Naming Containers - Has to be done in my Hangar at a Station. Why? It's just a container - It would be so much easier if I could rename it in the Corp Hangar Array at a POS - at the moment, I have to launch each container 1 at a tiem into space, rename, drag back to the hold, launch the next.

These type of things really need to be looked at.

On the subject of naming things - Item 2 - If I own an Orca, Me, not my Corp, why am I stuck with the same Corp Hangar Tab Names everywhere based on the main Corp HQ Hangar?

All corp hangars and their Tabs should be able to be individually named by a member of the corp who owns the ship, or have starbase config roles in the case of POS arrays.

Corp Hangar Arrays and Ship Maintenance Arrays should be able to be renamed in space like Research Arrays can be.

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